Joely Fisher Quotes
I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
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The war we have to wage today has only one goal and that is to make the world safe for diversity.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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A big thing that gets people in trouble in the kitchen is not reading the recipe from start to finish before you cook it. Before you start anything, read through the entire recipe once.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
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Skateboarding was everything to us growing up. It changes the way you see the world: you spend all day looking for ditches.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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Of course, this extremist ideology is not true Islam. That cannot be said clearly enough. But it is not good enough to say simply that Islam is a religion of peace and then to deny any connection between the religion of Islam and the extremists. Why? Because these extremists are self-identifying as Muslims.
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That's when the great stuff happens, when you're not checking yourself all the time, being critical of yourself and what other people are doing.
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It's interesting trying to make something as truthful as possible, but playing someone who is still alive is quite a weird thing.
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I told Miss Kay we need to make sure our children don't turn out like I turned out, so they were raised up around biblical instruction. That mixed with discipline - the discipline code, I call it. They just had a lifestyle of seeing their parents do good things.
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Every single thing that you learn really just gives you more comfort. It's something I counsel kids all the time: if someone is willing to teach you something for free, take them up on it. Do it. Every single time. All it does is make you more likely to be able to succeed. And it's kind of a nice way to go through life.
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I was up until all hours of the night, listening to stories, meeting great old comedians.
